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Meyer Burger has called an emergency general meeting to approve final funding for its Colorado and Arizona manufacturing plants.

German solar testing house Fraunhofer ISE opened its new technology evaluation centre (Module-TEC) in a former Solar Fabrik factory in Freiburg, Germany this week.

Turkey's installed solar capacity has surpassed wind thanks to the addition of hybrid projects, adding 510MW of capacity to the solar sector.

SolarEdge's shipments declined sharply as it only shipped 901MWac of inverters in Q4 2023, down by 76.5% from 3,841MWac in Q3 2023.

Italy added 5.23GW of new solar PV capacity in 2023, according to trade body Italia Solare, the highest annual total since 2011.

Panellists at the Energy Storage Summit 2024 discussed the commercial opportunities for co-located projects.

EDP Renewables has commissioned its second solar-plus-wind hybrid project in Portugal, which boasts a generation capacity of 43.8MW.

Telis Energy starts a pipeline of more than 100MWp of hybrid projects and 1GWh BESS standalone projects in Italy.

Members of the European Parliament, the ESMC and Uyghur representative groups discussed the alleged ongoing forced labour and exploitation of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang province.